NATURE NEVER DID BETRAY THE HEART THAT LOVED HER...............

1. LEKSHMI P.B.
B.Ed. ENGLISH
STD - X

2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807- ‘82)
American poet and educator
Wrote poems known for lyrical quality
The first American to translate
Dante’s The Divine Comedy into English
Works
Paul Revre’s Ride
The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline

4. THEME
The poem “The Arrow and the Song”
written by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow deals with the comparison
of an arrow and a song. Long
afterwards, the arrow was found
unbroken in an oak tree and the song
was found in the heart of a friend.

5. VOCABULARY
• SWIFTLY- FAST
• Eg: He ran swiftly on the track.

6. VOCABULARY
• FLEW- MOVED THROUGH THE AIR
• Eg: Birds flew high in the sky.

7. VOCABULARY
• OAK - A TYPE OF TREE WITH TOUGH HARD
WOOD
• Eg: It was a dirty narrow road lined with
mature Oak trees.

8. SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS
 Where did the song and arrow fall?
What did the poet breathe into the
air?
Is a song greater than an arrow? If
so, in what sense?

9. DISCOURSE CONSTRUCTION
• PREPARE A PLACARD ON THE
TOPIC “NATURE”.
NATURE IS OUR MOTHER

10. FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
•WRITE A POEM ON
“NATURE”?

11. THANK YOU